Blog Author: Jonathan Fyne

Year 2 are working on answering more and less questions using Place Value to help them. We learnt how to answer 1,2 and 10 more questions and 1,2 and 10 less than questions. 

Year 2 have been busy in Science this week exploring how materials can be changed. We learnt the different techniques that we can use to change the playdough and were then challenged to follow Mr Fyne's instructions to see if we could make an animal by pinching, twisting, bending, stretching. In…

PE on a Monday is great fun as we are improving our athletics skills. Today was all about jumping and we even had a go at hopscotch!

Year 2 have been working really hard in Maths to understand place value. We have used lots of practical resources to help work out how many tens and ones are in numbers. 

Year 2 really enjoyed their first session of the EcoHeadz project with Healthy Minds UK. Super group work as we learnt about what our environment is, global warming, climate change and mental health. We had to find different things on the globe, e.g somewhere hot, cold, that gives of pollution and…

We ended our week with an outdoor Jigsaw lesson in the ☀️. We played a belonging game to find other children with the same number as us before meeting Jigsaw Jo. We talked about what could be making Jigsaw worried and how we could help. 
 

This afternoon Year 2 went on an outdoor hunt to investigate what different materials object were made of. They had to take a photograph and add it to the correct box on a Seesaw activity by deciding if it was made of metal, plastic, glass or wood  

An exciting end to our Roald Dahl theme week with a STEM challenge to build a tower out of jelly tots and cocktail sticks! Great teamwork and concentration from all. We had a blast!

Year 2 had great fun this afternoon as they imagined what it would be like to work at the Chocolate Factory. They enjoyed making Oompa Loompa cake and made sure they got a good taste of the chocolate!

Year 2 had a great afternoon with some Willy Wonka art. They had a go at their own drawings then followed Quentin Blake to learn how to try him. Amazing results. ✅. So impressed

Year 2 enjoyed today’s English lesson where they watched clips of the chewing gum meal from both movies and then designed their own meals. Great work!

We have been so impressed with how well the children in Year 2 have settled back into school life!